We are excited to present a great video demonstrating innovative use of the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) for summative assessment purposes. Joshua Beer’s students in his 8th grade class in a rural New Hampshire community do brilliant work working with this Question Focus as they come to the end of a unit of study: Questions […]
How Can Medical Students Learn to Ask Better Questions?
Lessons from a Harvard Medical School Conference on Medical Education Dan Rothstein | Co-Director, The Right Question Institute. I recently crossed the river from Cambridge to Boston to spend some time at Harvard Medical School listening to a slew of fascinating discussions about how to improve medical education. Harvard Medical School (HMS) deserves a lot of […]
Equalizing Access to Innovation: WhatsApp and The Right Question Institute offer simple and powerful resources
What does The Right Question Institute have in common with WhatsApp? Well, it’s not $16 billion of Facebook’s money. But, here are a few parallels that occurred to me: I. VISION: Reach lots of people WhatsApp: Jan Koum, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp “expects five billion people to be using smartphones within the next […]
Questions or Answers. Questions and Answers.
My daughter, Ariela, a Global Studies teacher at East Brooklyn Community High School in New York and clever observer of interesting items in the Internet Galaxy, sent along a comic strip with her curator’s advice: “For RQI” (Right Question Institute). For RQI and how. Two characters from an unknown species sitting on a bench, two […]
A question is…a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument.
A question is more than the simple thing we might think it is – it’s a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument. – Leon Neyfakh in “Are We Asking the Right Questions” in the Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section, May 20, 2012 Week in and week out, The Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section offers one of […]
Make the Work Easier for Teachers: Teach Students to Think for Themselves
What do a middle school teacher in a challenging Atlanta public school and a Ph.D graduate student teaching undergraduate physics students at Harvard College have in common? They’re both working too hard. We’ve heard from both of them and from many other educators that they wind up doing too much thinking for their students. There may, in […]
Dominique’s story: Using RQI skills to prevent an illegal eviction attempt
This is another posting from our volunteer guest blogger, Nathalie Alegre. For more information about Nathalie, see the intro to her piece about Earldine Tolbert and RQI’s voter engagement initiative. Dominique is a young woman new to Philadelphia and intent on obtaining her GED, the high school equivalency certification. “Getting the GED,” as it is […]
“He Prizes Questions More Than Answers”
We’ve been so busy that we haven’t been able to set aside the time to write. But, the stories coming in are too compelling for us not to write, so we’ll get started again. Before we start writing about them, though, a short piece in yesterday’s NY Times helped spur me back to the keyboard. […]